Is there anybody out there feeling a bit low about going due to the fact they don't have trillions of pounds to take and 'heaven forbid', may have to have a mortgage at some stage

PMSL I knew you couldn't resist starting a thread like this!

Yes...... please add me to the list of paupers!

right I'm off to well at the bottom of the field to fetch a pale of water to make some potato broth for our supper!

We had to put up the $100k bond so by the time we got off the plane and got our passports stamped, we had about $11k in the bank. Bothered me a bit at the time but here we are, seven months later doing allright

I know what you mean though. I laugh when I read threads like "We're only taking $250k with us. Will we have a decent lifestyle?"

....but there's a hole in my bucket - dear margaret, dear margaret!

Money is so over rated

Or that newbie bloke, (was it Thebears??) moaning about the price of houses in Toorak. Or how he's got 2 BMWs and 4 holidays a year.

I'm just gald they don't have snow in Oz. It gets you down when you've to walk 15 miles to the pits every morning, work for 15 hours in the dark then walk 15 miles home again.

All for 6 shilling a year

Just sell your body Margaret. I'm sure you will be loaded after 6 months.

and eat soot for tea!

Whats tea??

Luxury

Thats what WMoore & I did.


Wonder why we are still skint.

I still owe out too

the black powdery stuff you lick off yer hands after a hard days grafting down the mines....cos yer got no soap!

Maybe 25 cents a time was setting our sights a bit high.